Design, installation, and field experience with a real-time portable transformer monitoring system

Author

Hoppe, F.J. ; Thompson, R.S.

Author_Institution

Underground Syst. Inc., Armonk, NY, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

15-20 Sep 1996

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

57

Abstract

A portable transformer monitoring system has been developed and installed to monitor and store critical operating parameters of power transformers. The system´s hardware, firmware, and software have been designed using an “open” architecture to provide maximum flexibility for parameter measurement and data presentation. A two-bank system can be placed in service in under three hours without requiring equipment outages and is readily expandable to include thermal modeling, alarm functions, pump and fan control, diagnostics and real-time ratings. The system can be interfaced to existing SCADA or EMS

Keywords

computerised monitoring; firmware; power engineering computing; power transformers; EMS; SCADA; alarm functions; diagnostics; fan control; firmware; hardware; open architecture; operating parameters; portable transformer monitoring system; power transformers; pump control; real-time ratings; real-time system; software; thermal modeling; Computer architecture; Condition monitoring; Hardware; Microprogramming; Power system modeling; Power transformers; Real time systems; Software design; Software measurement; Thermal expansion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transmission and Distribution Conference, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3522-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TDC.1996.545913

Filename

545913